spe'shy. Coin; copper, silver or gold coined and used as a circulating medium of commerce. [ See Special .]
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Specie
Webster's Dictionary 1913
abl. of L. species sort, kind. Used in the phrase in specie, that is, in sort, in kind, in (its own) form.
Coin; hard money.
1. spe'shiz. [Latin from specio, to see. See Special .]
2. In zoology, a collection of organized beings derived from one common parentage by natural generation, characterized by one peculiar from one common parentage by natural generation, characterized by one peculiar form, liable to vary within certain narrow limits. These accidental and limited variations are varieties. Different races from the same parents are called varieties.
3. In botany, all the plants which spring from the same see, or which resemble each other in certain character or in variable forms. There are as many species as there are different in variable forms or circumstances only with in certain narrow limits. These accidental and limited variations are varieties. Different races from the same parents are called varieties.
4. In logic, a special idea, corresponding to the specific distinctions of things in nature.
5. Sort; kind; in a loose sense; as a species of low cunning in the world; as a species of generosity; a species of cloth.
6. Appearance to the senses; visible or sensible representation. An apparent diversity between the species visible and audible, is that the visible doth not mingle in the medium, but the audible doth. The species of letters illuminated with indigo and violet. [Little used.]
7. Representation to the min. Wit-the faculty of imagination in the writer, which searches over all the memory for the species or ideas of those things which it designs to present. [Little used.]
8. Show; visible exhibition. Shows and species serve best with the common people. [Not in use.]
9. Coin, or coined silver and gold, used as a circulating medium; as the current species of Europe. In modern practice. this word is contracted into specie. What quantity of specie has the bank in its vault? What is the amount of all the current specie in the country? What is the value in specie, of a bill of exchange? We receive payment for goods in specie, not in bank notes.
10. In pharmacy, a simple; a component part of a compound medicine.
11. The old pharmaceutical term for powders.
1. Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image.
2. A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes, and extending to fewer individuals. Thus, man is a species, under animal as a genus; and man, in its turn, may be regarded as a genus with respect to European, American, or the like, as species.
3. In science, a more or less permanent group of existing things or beings, associated according to attributes, or properties determined by scientific observation.
4. A sort; a kind; a variety; as, a species of low cunning; a species of generosity; a species of cloth.
5. Coin, or coined silver, gold, ot other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.
6. A public spectacle or exhibition.
7. A component part of compound medicine; a simple.
8. An officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; esp., one used for making an aromatic tea or tisane; a tea mixture.
9. The form or shape given to materials; fashion or shape; form; figure.
Species
Encyclopedia Britannica
SPECIES. In logic the term “species” is applied to any group of individuals agreeing in some common attribute or attributes, and included along with other groups in a higher category, that of “genus,” which comprehends the fewer and more general attributes in which all agree and ignores those in which they differ. The application of these terms in logic is thus purely relative; any genus, however large, may be but a species of a still larger genus. But in arranging the innumerable objects of the natural sciences the naturalist finds it necessary to restrict the terms “species” and “genus” to the two lowest groupings and to distinguish the higher aggregates by special terms, as “family,” “order,” “class,” &c. Early writers had but a loose conception of many different “kinds” of animals and plants, and spoke only of species and genus in their purely logical relations, with varying breadth of content. The term “species” was limited to its natural history usage in the end of the 17th century by John Ray. His conception of “specific characters” rested, not only on close and constant resemblance in outward form, but also on the likeness of offspring to parent, a considerable measure of variability being, however, recognized. Amongst subsequent authors this conception of common descent or parentage became more and more prominent, while the progress of successful definition of species made the limits of their variability seem always narrower and of less importance; and in this way the useful working conception of the tolerable definiteness of species gradually crystallized into the absolute dogma of their fixity. Then Linnaeus in his Philosophia Botanica gave the aphorism “species tot sunt diversae, quot diversae formae ab initio sunt ...creatae” (we reckon just as many species as there were forms created at the beginning), which was generally accepted. Buffon’s obstinate rejection of the Linnaean classification was associated with a belief in the modifiability of species, and showed some foresight of the doctrine elaborated soon afterwards by Lamarck (q.v). The general acceptance of this dogma was, however, effected by the influence of Cuvier; its overthrow dates only from the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species (1859), of which the argument need not be here repeated. (See Evolution, Morphology.) The genealogical conception of species was thus established more firmly than ever, though cleared from its former associations; in Haeckel’s phrase, the species is the whole succession of organisms which exhibit the same form in the same environment. The rash generalization, that distinct species are to be recognized by their incapacity for the production of fertile hybrids, was next overthrown, while closer study has cleared away the notion of the equal definiteness of all specific forms. We now know that, while many forms, like the pearly nautilus or the Venus’s fly-trap, do indeed exhibit the most perfect specific definiteness, the demarcation of equally definite species in other genera is rendered impossible by the existence of the most complete series of transitional forms, and the number of the species defined thus comes to depend simply on the personal equation of the systematist, on his predilection for “lumping” or “splitting,” as the case may be. Thus, for example, the number of described German species of hawkweed (Hieracium) has ranged from 300 for one author, through 106 for another and 52 for a third, to less than 20 for a fourth. Similar instances of variable genera are afforded by the willows and the brambles, and many other common forms. This wide variability, as might be expected, seems to be more prevalent among the lowest forms of life, and the classical example of the relativity and variability of species has been furnished by Haeckel’s beautiful monograph on the calcareous sponges (Monographie der Kalkschwämme, Jena, 1872), in which he offers twelve distinct arrangements of the same set of forms from various points of view, among which the two most nearly conventional propose respectively 21 genera and 111 species and 39 genera and 289 species. All such variable forms are in fact species in the making, which become definite in proportion as certain varieties become especially adapted to their environment, and become isolated by the dying out of the intermediate forms. With these limitations, however, the working usefulness of the morphological conception of species remains undiminished. The want of any absolute standard of specific difference is largely made up by practical experience and common sense; and the evolutionary systematists are less in danger than were their predecessors of either exaggerating or understating the importance of mere varieties. (See Variation.)
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 22, p. 372
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Money Roget’s Thesaurus §800
N. money, legal tender, money matters, money market, finance, accounts, funds, treasure, capital, stock, assets, wealth, supplies, ways and means, wherewithal, sinews of war, almighty dollar, needful, cash, mammon, dough, cabbage, money-like instruments, m1, m2, sum, amount, balance, balance sheet, sum total, proceeds, currency, circulating medium, specie, coin, piece, hard cash, cold cash, dollar, sterling coin, pounds shillings and pence, ls, d, pocket, breeches pocket, purse, money in hand, cash at hand, ready money, ready cash, slug, wad* wad of bills, wad of money, thick wad of bills, roll of dough, rhino|, blunt|, dust|, mopus|, tin|, salt|, chink|, argent comptant, bottom dollar, buzzard dollar|, checks, dibs*, double eagle, eagle, federal currency, fractional currency, postal currency, federal reserve note, united states note, silver certificate, gold certificate, long bit, short bit, moss, nickel, pile*, pin money, quarter, red cent, roanoke, rock*, seawan, seawant, thousand dollars, grand, single, one-dollar bill, two-dollar bill, five-dollar bill, fiver, fin, lincoln, ten-dollar bill, sawbuck, twenty-dollar bill, jackson, double sawbuck, fifty-dollar bill, hundred-dollar bill, c-note, penny, cent, lincoln cent, indian head penny, copper, two-cent piece three-cent piece, half-dime, nickel, buffalo nickel, v nickel, dime, disme|, mercury dime, quarter, two bits, half dollar, dollar, silver dollar, eisenhower dollar, susan b, anthony dollar, precious metals, gold, silver, copper, bullion, ingot, nugget, petty cash, pocket money, change, small change, small coin, doit, stiver, rap, mite, farthing, sou, penny, shilling, tester, groat, guinea, rouleau, wampum, good sum, round sum, lump sum, power of money, plum, lac of rupees, major coin, crown, minor coin, monetarist, monetary theory, numismatics, chrysology, numismatist, paper money, greenback, major denomination, minor denomination, money order, postal money order, post office order, bank note, bond, bill, bill of exchange, order, warrant, coupon, debenture, exchequer bill, assignat, blueback, hundi, shinplaster*, note, note of hand, promissory note, i o u, draft, check, cheque, back-dated check, negotiable order of withdrawal, now, remittance, credit, liability, drawer, drawee, obligor, obligee, moneyer, coiner, false money, bad money, base coin, flash note, slip|, kite*, fancy stocks, bank of elegance, argumentum ad crumenam, letter of credit, circulation, multiplier effect, inflation, double-digit inflation, hyperinflation, erosion of the currency, debasement of the currency, deflation, stagflation, exchange rate, rate of exchange, floating exchange rates, fixed rates, currency counter, currency exchange, bureau de change, gold-backed currency, gold standard, silver standard, bank account, savings account, checking account, money market account, now account, time deposit, deposit, demand deposit, super now account, certificate of deposit, cd, $, u, s, $, a$, federal reserve bank, central bank, federal reserve board, board of governors of the federal reserve, treasury department, secret service, mint, bureau of engraving, seigniorage, counterfeit, funny money, bogus money, (see falsehood) 545, interest, interest rate, discount rate
V. amount to, come to, mount up to, touch the pocket, draw, draw upon, indorse, issue, utter, discount, back, demonetize, remonetize, fiscalize, monetize, circulate, be in circulation, be out of circulation, mint, coin, print, inflate, deflate, debase, devalue, revalue, circulate, put in circulation, withdraw from circulation, exchange currencies, change money, charge interest, pay interest, lose interest
Adj. monetary, pecuniary, crumenal|, fiscal, financial, sumptuary, numismatic, numismatical, sterling, nummary
Phr. barbarus ipse placet dummodo sit dives, "but the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that honor feels", gelt regiert die welt, money makes the world go round, nervos belli pecuniam infinitam, redet geld so schweigt die welt, "money is the mother's milk of politics", money is the root of all evil, money isn't everything, "as phony as a three-dollar bill", "don't take any wooden nickels"
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